Re: [Fwd: Harrisburg Set to Gut Our Zoning Rights]

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--- Mark Krull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 

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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Ed Goppelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Harrisburg Set to Gut Our Zoning Rights
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:29:38 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> Dear Friend:
> 
> Apparently the Billboard industry, having failed to
> pass Bill 629
> in City Council, is now trying to pass the same
> legislation in
> Harrisburg.  See the Action Alert from the Coalition
> of
> Philadelphia Neighborhood Associations (CPNA) below.
> 
> We need to tell our state legislators what we think
> of this underhanded attempt by the Billboard
> industry to gut
> Philadelphia's zoning law and we don't have much
> time:  the
> amendment could become law as early as tomorrow,
> June 26.
> 
> So please write your legislators NOW.  For your
> convenience, I
> have set up a web page which will fax your letter to
> the relevant
> officials in Harrisburg:
> 
> http://www.hallwatch.org/faxbank/629clone
> 
> Like Bill 629, the amendment to the Senate
> Appropriations Bill
> 1100 would severely restrict the ability of
> Community Groups or
> individuals to contest illegal zoning variances such
> as those
> routinely granted to billboards.  
> 
> Whoever is pushing this legislation clearly doesn't
> want the
> public to know what they are doing:
> 
> * The legislation was introduced right before the
> legislature is
> scheduled to adjourn.  
> 
> * The legislation has nothing to do with the funding
> bill to
> which it has been attached.
> 
> * The last minute introduction of the amendment
> ensures there
> will be no public debate or hearings.
> 
> * None of the legislators in Harrisburg is willing
> to say who the
> amendment's author is.
> 
> Ed Goppelt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>
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> 
> Tuesday, June 25, 2002
> 
> CPNA Coalition of Philadelphia Neighborhood
> Associations
> 
> Tuesday, June 25, 2002
> 
> 629 Clone emerges in Harrisburg
> 
> Immediate actions to help stop this Amendment to SB
> 1100 :
> 
> 1. Send a letter via email to John Perzel and it
> will be faxed
> through the gateway:
> 
> http://www.hallwatch.org/faxbank/629clone 
> 
> (Simply state who you are, where you live and that
> you are asking
> Representative Perzel to stop "SB 1100" and strike
> its amendment
> to limit the rights of community groups to act on
> behalf of
> residents.
> 
> Call House Majority Leader, John Perzel at
> 215-331-2600
> 
> 3. Contact your own State Representative and
> Senator.
> 
> *** ACTION ALERT *** S T O P Senate Bill 1100
> 
> Hundreds of community associations and good
> government citizens
> stopped Bill 629 in Philadelphia last Fall but on
> Monday night a
> rider was attached to a Harrisburg state bill that
> resurrects the
> billboard bill in no uncertain terms.  Just as
> Philadelphia's
> Bill 629, Harrisburg's amendment to Bill 1100,
> severely limits
> the rights of community organizations to appeal
> Zoning Board
> decisions in Philadelphia
> 
> It also adds special protections for the billboard
> industry by
> eliminating the legal standing of community groups,
> or any
> taxpayer to participate in any cases involving
> outdoor
> advertising.
> 
> What's wrong with this bill?
> 
> Seen by neighborhood leaders and citizens as an
> insidious attempt
> to limits the power of local community groups to
> serve the
> residents of Philadelphia.
> 
> Sets a dangerous precedent that would encourage
> inquisitions of
> community groups before zoning boards to prove their
> status to
> participate.
> 
> Creates new, vague and legally undefined criteria
> with the new
> wording "immediate vicinity of the property."
> 
> Excludes all city-wide community groups from
> participating in
> zoning issues such as Foundation for Architecture,
> The
> Preservation Alliance, SCRUB, the Clean-Air Council,
> Pennsylvania
> Horticultural Center and the NAACP.
> 
> Another attempt to govern Philadelphia from
> Harrisburg by
> overriding existing legislation.
> 
> Mary Tracy 
> 215-731-1775
> Executive Director
> SCRUB
> 
> 


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